Is the Constitution of America a dead letter? We are hearing that today online from some in the Christian nationalist crowd.

And on today's episode of Grace and Truth, I want to tackle some of that thinking and offer a biblical response to it.

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We are told today, four realities today that I'm going to cover in this episode.

We're told today that the Constitution is a dead letter or in slightly different language, it's no longer operative.

People aren't living by it.

And so we don't need to continue to act as if the Constitution matters at all.

For example, here is a recent tweet from a man named Nate Fisher, who has been a vocal proponent of what is called Christian nationalism.

I understand nostalgia for the Constitution or longing to restore the principles the founders

established, Fisher wrote on May 19, 2024.

But if you will not accept the reality that this is long gone, if you judge others based on

fidelity to a set of principles, he puts

in air quotes, that govern no one, then you are a fool. End quotation. This is quite a summation

of the perspective that I've seen a good number of folks articulate in the last few years, namely

that the U.S.

Constitution is dead.

It no longer governs anyone.

The left no longer recognizes it.

And so basically the argument goes, conservatives and Christians should stop trying to act

as if the Constitution still matters.

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